Micro-Blogging with Twitter
Posted on June 10, 2007
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You may have notice that I’ve added a “Recent Twitters” section the side bar. Twitter is a (relatively) new web application that is used for answering the question: “What are you doing?” Like most people, I don’t quite use it for this purpose.
A lot of people are using it as a sort of public instant messaging (IM) service, allowing them to message all of their friends at once, via the website, IM applications, and/or cell phone text messages. Other people are using it for micro-blogging. I fall into the later group.
Micro-blogging, essentially, is writing incredibly short blog entries. Twitter only allows you to have 140 characters per message, so you don’t get room to write very much. This makes it perfect for writing little blurbs about things that you want to share, but which aren’t important enough for a full blog post. If I am having a shitty day at work, and want to tell you about it, I won’t write a full post about it. Instead, I might write a one or two line twitter from the office as a way of blowing off steam and letting you all know that the A/C seems to be broken again.
I’ll also occasionally micro-blog about interesting links, like I did recently after watching another episode of the excellent new CBC news magazine On the Map.
If you haven’t been paying attention to the Recent Twitters section, you may want to keep an eye on it. I’m sure that some of the things I write will be mundane and uninteresting (just like some of my full-length blog entries), but I’ll try to keep that to a minimum. Instead, I’ll try to use it mostly for providing you with interesting tidbits about life, love, and the pursuit of interesting web pages.
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